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I am interested in interviewing with an open oncology posiiton with BMS. Can anyone tell me more about their culture, salary range, benefits, etc? I have been in pharma 20 years, 7 in specialty and 3 in oncology.
 


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I am interested in interviewing with an open oncology posiiton with BMS. Can anyone tell me more about their culture, salary range, benefits, etc? I have been in pharma 20 years, 7 in specialty and 3 in oncology.
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Well with only 3 years of oncology experience you haven’t been around that long or with a bunch of different oncology organizations so it really matters where you are currently working. If you’ve worked for the small Bay Area or Boston biotech’s than the BMS culture is going to feel just like primary care, big pharma culture. If you are at one of the big pharma oncology companies like Sanofi, Pfizer, Novartis it will feel pretty much the same. It really is all relative. If you have call reporting and field ride a longs with a manager now, than BMS will be fine for you. If you are used to being independent and not doing a lot of BS admin, call reporting, field visits, etc. than BMS will not be a good fit for you. Like I said it is all relative…Good luck.
 


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Well with only 3 years of oncology experience you haven’t been around that long or with a bunch of different oncology organizations so it really matters where you are currently working. If you’ve worked for the small Bay Area or Boston biotech’s than the BMS culture is going to feel just like primary care, big pharma culture. If you are at one of the big pharma oncology companies like Sanofi, Pfizer, Novartis it will feel pretty much the same. It really is all relative. If you have call reporting and field ride a longs with a manager now, than BMS will be fine for you. If you are used to being independent and not doing a lot of BS admin, call reporting, field visits, etc. than BMS will not be a good fit for you. Like I said it is all relative…Good luck.
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Worked for BMS - they tend to live in the past with a very backward culture. If you liked the 1970's and 1980's, you'll be very happy there! Have to disagree with you regarding Genentech (SF area). My best friend is a "high level manager" in SF. He laughs at how people at the company stick their chests out as if they're better than everyone else yet when you ask where they came from, it's usually Pfizer, Abbott, Merck, etc - in other words, they all came from big pharma. The game is the same at most of the companies.
 


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Worked for BMS - they tend to live in the past with a very backward culture. If you liked the 1970's and 1980's, you'll be very happy there! Have to disagree with you regarding Genentech (SF area). My best friend is a "high level manager" in SF. He laughs at how people at the company stick their chests out as if they're better than everyone else yet when you ask where they came from, it's usually Pfizer, Abbott, Merck, etc - in other words, they all came from big pharma. The game is the same at most of the companies.
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I launched Avastin and up until the Roche buyout/takeover Genentech was a great place to work… right up until it wasn’t. I don’t think Genentech people puff their chests out as being better, but there has not been a more crucial oncology company over the last 8 to 10 years than Genentech. The reason people may feel that way about Genentech is we sort of all stick together, hire each other and because of having blockbuster products our access to KOL’s was better than most. There was not one KOL we didn’t have access to because they all wanted to be involved with partnering with Genentech for studies or with their own drug platforms. There were no, no-see docs. And for that many other reps at other companies were pissed. With 100 oncology drugs in the pipeline a lot of universities wanted to talk with us to be a part of the research. Sure almost 100% of people at any oncology biotech started their careers at a big drug company out of college so I’m not sure what your point is on that one. I will say this you saw a lot of Amgen, Gilead, and Chiron/Cetus people who were at Genentech just because they were all west coast or bay area companies and like I said you rarely needed a recruiter to hire anyone at Genentech as most positions were filled with employee referrals.
 








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Yeah right if you were there for 10 years.
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Well, we had the lowest turnover in oncology pre Roche takeover and yes many of us where since the launch of Rituxan and Herceptin. I was…People think the Genentech people are stuck up because they themselves couldn’t get in or they were pissed that we had the best access to everyone from community oncologist to head of academic cancer centers. We had the best and most groundbreaking drugs and built a very tenured oncology sales force with great relationships. Hey if you only sold antiemetics or GCSF that’s your fault…
 


Anonymous said:
Well, we had the lowest turnover in oncology pre Roche takeover and yes many of us where since the launch of Rituxan and Herceptin. I was…People think the Genentech people are stuck up because they themselves couldn’t get in or they were pissed that we had the best access to everyone from community oncologist to head of academic cancer centers. We had the best and most groundbreaking drugs and built a very tenured oncology sales force with great relationships. Hey if you only sold antiemetics or GCSF that’s your fault…
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Ok you are so special. LOL. Get a life you arrogant ass.
 









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